Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm David S. Safran
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Patent number: 7234430Abstract: A method for heating a glow plug for a diesel engine to its desired temperature by supplying power to the glow plug in a controlled fashion. During a certain time interval after termination of a previous glow process, a mathematical model is used to determine the values for the supply of power to the glow plug, which includes the values of the actual thermal state of the glow plug, the time elapsed since the end of the previous glow process and the parameters of the diesel engine relevant for a glow process.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2004Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Beru AGInventors: Olaf Toedter, Heinz-Georg Schmitz, Andreas Bleil, Joerg Stoeckle, Hans Houben
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Patent number: 7228730Abstract: A pressure-measuring glow plug for a diesel engine with a plug body (3, 4) for insertion into a cylinder of the diesel engine, a heating rod (1) which is arranged in the plug body (3, 4), and a pressure sensor, which is arranged under an initial tension between the heating rod (1) and the plug body (3, 4), in such a way that the pressure sensor (7) is acted upon by the pressure prevailing in the combustion chamber of the cylinder. The heating rod (1) transmits the pressure in the combustion chamber of the cylinder to the pressure sensor (7) and is arranged so as to be displaceable in a sliding manner in the axial direction relative to the plug body (3, 4). A seal in the form of a bellows-shaped component (2) is provided between the heating rod (1) and the plug body (3, 4).Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2005Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Assignees: Beru AG, Texas Instruments Holland B.V.Inventors: Michael Haussner, Hans Houben, Frank Pechhold, Friedrich Mayr, Ulf Wyrwich
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Patent number: 7229126Abstract: A motor vehicle roof with two openable covers (18, 20) in which the rear cover (20) can be lowered at its front edge (20V) and the front cover (18) can be moved at least partially over the rear cover (20) in its lowered position. The front cover (18) can be raised at its rear edge (18H) and by means of support devices (24) which are located near its rear edge (18H) can be moved on guides (26) which are located laterally outward alongside of the rear cover (20), which is made as a spoiler cover.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2004Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Assignee: Webasto AGInventor: Wolfgang Seifert
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Patent number: 7231303Abstract: A vibration sensor (1) for monitoring the state of rotating components or bearings, includes a housing (2), a sensor element (3), evaluation electronics (4), and at least one interface (5, 6). With the vibration sensor (1), reliable monitoring of the state of rotating components and bearings can be done easily and economically, and in addition the vibration sensor can be easily operated. The evaluation electronics (4) has an analog-to-digital converter (7), and a signal conditioning device (8) having a plurality of signals, which have been acquired by the sensor element (3), and which are converted into a state value using signal analysis and a diagnosis algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2003Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Assignee: i-for-T GmbHInventors: Erich Griessler, Peter Herberholz, Benno Kathan, Thomas May, Christian Bauer, Michael Danitschek
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Patent number: 7225916Abstract: A belt cleaner device is provided in which assembling of a frame and a cleaner head may be performed easily and quickly. A belt cleaner device comprises a frame 3 and one or more cleaner heads 1. The frame 3 includes a support face (3a) on its upper surface, and a support hole (33) through the frame. The cleaner head (1) includes a contact face (14) on its undersurface, and an anchor (16) projecting downward from the contact face (14). The cleaner head (1) is supported so as not to be rotated about the running direction of the belt by contacting the contact face (14) and the support face (3a) with each other. The cleaner head (1) is fixed to the frame (3) by fixedly inserting the anchor (16) in the support hole (33). The cleaner head (1) further provides a concave (21) in at least one of the front and rear walls (13) (15) to form a strike seat (22) at the bottom of the concave (21).Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2006Date of Patent: June 5, 2007Assignee: Nippon Tsusho Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kageyoshi Yoshizako, Masahiro Uchida, Nobuyoshi Fujisaki
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Patent number: 7222997Abstract: Lighting apparatus includes an effect wheel which is mounted on a rotation mechanism. The rotation mechanism is mounted on a mechanism which moves the effect wheel from a position outside of the light path to a position in which the effect wheel intersects the light path to provide a continuous wheel effect. The translation mechanism can move the effect wheel between positions in which the effect wheel crosses the light path in a horizontal direction and in a vertical direction, respectively. The apparatus allows a continuous wheel effect to be added to a multi-purpose luminaire and also allows the direction of travel of the continuous wheel effect across the illuminated field to be continuously varied.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Martin Professional A/SInventors: Niels Jorgen Rasmussen, Mads Glavind
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Patent number: 7217231Abstract: The invention relates to a device for sealing-in pouring spouts in bags (1), comprising at least one station for opening (4) the bag (1), a station for inserting (4) the pouring spout into the opened bag (1), and at least one station for sealing (5, 6, 7) the bag (1) and the pouring spout. According to the invention, such a device is improved with a view to simple design and high processing speed in that the stations (2–8) for bag processing are arranged on a linear transport system (11) for the bags (1), which linear transport system (11) is formed by two transport belts (9, 10), and in that the stations (2–8) for bag processing are all arranged in a grid of equal spacing.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2002Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Fresenius Kabi Deutschland GmbHInventor: Henno Hensen
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Patent number: 7212294Abstract: A method and arrangement for determining the level of at least two measurement points with a light beam direct along a first direction and being deflected through 90° with respect to the first direction to a second direction, the second direction being rotated through a rotation angle corresponding to the position of the measurement point about an axis which is formed by the first direction. The light beam has a cross-sectional intensity distribution with a preferred direction, and after being deflected to the second direction, falls on a detector surface which is positioned successively at each measurement point, the incidence level of the light beam and the orientation of the preferred direction of the cross-section intensity distribution of the light beam on the detector surface being determined for each measurement point, and the rotation angle for each measurement point being determined from the respective orientation of the preferred direction on the detector surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2004Date of Patent: May 1, 2007Assignee: Prüftechnik Dieter Busch AGInventor: Klaus Stroel
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Patent number: 7211956Abstract: A short-arc ultra-high pressure mercury lamp in which the change in the shape of the electrodes can be suppressed and a stable arc discharge can always be produced is achieved in an arrangement in which, in the silica glass arc tube, there is a pair of opposed electrodes with a distance between them of at most 2 mm and the tube is filled with at least 0.15 mg/mm3 of mercury, a rare gas, and a halogen in the range from 1×10?6 ?mole/mm3 to 1×10?2 ?mole/mm3, by at least one of the electrodes having a melt part formed toward the electrode tip by winding the electrode rod with a coil and by melting the part of the coil oriented towards the electrode tip at least in the area of its surface. A part of the coil located away from the electrode tip is unmelted and the base point side area of the coil facing away from the electrode tip is rounded and does not have sharp edges.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2004Date of Patent: May 1, 2007Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takuya Tukamoto, Yoshihiro Horikawa, Yoshikazu Suzuki
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Patent number: 7205777Abstract: A capacitive proximity switch for detecting the change in the capacitance relative to a setpoint capacitance by the approach or retreat of an object in the sensitive area of a proximity switch, especially for use in the door handle of a motor vehicle, provides reliable error detection and error suppression at a fundamentally high sensitivity of the capacitive proximity switch by utilizing an evaluation unit that evaluates a measured value of the change in capacitance over time and depending on the time behavior of the measured value activates changes the operating threshold from a first threshold (which can be caused by a false object coming into or out of the sensitive area of the proximity switch) to a higher second threshold which can be reached only at a relatively greater change in capacitance caused by a target object coming into or out of the sensitive area of the proximity switch.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2004Date of Patent: April 17, 2007Assignees: i f m electronic GmbH, Huf Huelsbeck & Fuerst GmbH & Co., KGInventors: Joerg Schulz, Gerhard Heilig, Heidrun Richter, Bernd Steegmann, Martin Witte, Gianni Uselli
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Patent number: 7204178Abstract: Cutting saw with a workpiece supporting surface, a holder mounted on the carrier, a saw assembly, having a motor and saw blade, being pivotably attached to the holder above the carrier, and a dust catching device mounted on the saw assembly. The saw assembly can pivot around a transverse axis out of a raised rest position into a lowered sawing position. The dust catching device has at least one dust outlet opening on a dust outlet side and has at least one dust inlet opening which faces a dust-throwing side of the saw blade on a dust inlet side. It is proposed that the dust catching device be made of a flexurally stiff material on at least the dust inlet side and that at least a part of the dust catching device is movable at least on the dust inlet side.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2005Date of Patent: April 17, 2007Assignee: Metabowerke GmbHInventor: Laurenz Bergmann
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Patent number: 7197835Abstract: A detector supporting mechanism comprising a first arm having its one end fixed on a mount linearly movable relative to a workpiece, the first arm having a rotation axis at the other end and a second arm provided on the first arm so as to be turnable on the rotation axis relative to the first arm, a detector being mounted on a tip of the second arm, wherein the rotation axis is provided on a plane inclined at an angle of 45° from the movement axis of the mount while being inclined at an angle of 45° from the movement axis of the mount in a projection on a plane which is inclined at an angle of 45° from the plane inclined at an angle of 45° from the movement axis of the mount, and which contains the movement axis of the mount, and wherein an axis of the detector mounted on the second arm intersects the rotation axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2005Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: Tokyo Seimitsu Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ryo Takanashi
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Patent number: 7198323Abstract: A motor vehicle roof with a roof plate which has a transparent plastic area to which a peripheral plastic edge is molded which is used especially as a cover visor and which extends downward. Furthermore, the roof plate has a nontransparent area with a holding frame for a functional element molded onto a bottom thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2006Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: Webasto AGInventors: Miriam Schoenauer, Joachim Birkner, Michael Koelbl, Alexander Lang, Rudi Muttenhammer, Martin Pollak, Ralf Schwaighofer, Friedhelm Wulf, Jean-Guy Cocaign
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Patent number: 7194819Abstract: An opposed type fulcrum member of a lever detector is constituted by a main body part having a U-shaped section and thin-walled parts each formed in opposed positions of two sides of the main body part, and two ends of the U-shaped main body part can rock, with the tin-walled parts serving as fulcrums. By performing the U-shaped working and thin-walled working of the main body part by press forming, a low-cost, uniform opposed type fulcrum member is obtained and it is possible to reduce the cost of the whole lever detector.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2005Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignees: Tokyo Seimitsu Co., Ltd., Tosei Engineering CorporationInventor: Nozomi Takai
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Patent number: 7196787Abstract: An apparatus for total internal reflection microscopy of a sample, comprising a microscope objective lens; an excitation beam path for passing light through the objective lens to said sample; and a coupling element arranged in a back focal plane of the objective lens or in a plane which is conjugate to said back focal plane; said coupling element comprising a first area for relaying light to the objective lens for total internal reflection illumination of said sample and a second area; wherein said second area is capable of separating light emitted by said sample and passing through said excitation beam path in reverse direction from said excitation beam path; wherein said second area is spatially separate from said first area and does not overlap with said first area; and wherein a distance between said optical axis of the objective lens and that boundary of said first area which is nearer to said optical axis of the objective lens is selected such that the light beams passing from said first area into the oType: GrantFiled: March 3, 2004Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: TILL Photonics GmbHInventors: Rainer Uhl, Michael Hartl
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Patent number: 7193183Abstract: A glow plug connector for a glow plug with built-in sensor, especially built-in pressure sensor, comprising a casing made of an electrically insulating material, which can be placed onto the glow plug. Provided centrally in the casing is a high-current connection which is connected to the high-current contact of the heating devices of the glow plug when the connector is placed thereon. Sensor contacts are provided on the casing insulated with respect to the high-current connection for contacting the sensor connections of the built-in sensor when the connector is placed thereon. For sealing an O-ring is provided on the outside of the casing whereas a locking mechanism serves to deliver the withdrawal force which must be overcome so that a coupling placed thereon can be removed from the glow plug connector. The connector is part of a system with a glow plug connector and glow plug.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2005Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignees: Beru AG, Hirschmann Automotive GmbHInventors: Michael Haussner, Gerald List, Frank Pechhold, Hans Houben, Juergen Haefele, Werner Jaeger
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Patent number: 7189921Abstract: A housing arrangement with at least two junction boxes, a base part and a cover, the junction boxes each having a square housing with a terminal strip for electrical connection of an electric cable or a line, and at least two openings for electric cables or lines. The housing arrangement can be modularly built and variably adapted to different requirements since the individual junction boxes can be mounted on top of one another turned by 0°, 90°, 180° or 270° relative to one another. The terminal strips are connectors which can be mounted in a junction box in any of four positions which are turned by 90° relative to one another, and the connectors of two junction boxes which are mounted on top of one another can be connected to one another with the plug part of one connector can be inserted into the socket part of the other connector.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2005Date of Patent: March 13, 2007Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Jens Andresen, Ralf Lange
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Patent number: 7189149Abstract: A truing method for a chamfering grindstone for performing chamfering work on a peripheral edge of a plate-shaped object, comprising the steps of: performing chamfering work on a truing grindstone with a master grindstone having a desired groove shape and forming a peripheral edge shape of the truing grindstone into a desired chamfered shape; and transferring the groove shape of the master grindstone onto the chamfering grindstone by performing grooving work on the chamfering grindstone with the chamfered truing grindstone to form the groove in the desired shape on the chamfering grindstone.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2004Date of Patent: March 13, 2007Assignees: Tokyo Seimitsu Co., Ltd., Tosei Engineering CorporationInventors: Ichiro Katayama, Youichi Nakamura
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Patent number: 7185936Abstract: A motor vehicle roof with a roof plate which has a transparent plastic area to which a peripheral plastic edge is molded which is used especially as a cover visor and which extends downward. Furthermore, the roof plate has a nontransparent area with a holding frame for a functional element molded onto a bottom thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2006Date of Patent: March 6, 2007Assignee: Webasto AGInventors: Miriam Schoenauer, Joachim Birkner, Michael Koelbl, Alexander Lang, Rudi Muttenhammer, Martin Pollak, Ralf Schwaighofer, Friedhelm Wulf, Jean-Guy Cocaign
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Patent number: 7185734Abstract: The invention relates to a hearing protection earplug, comprising a shell for being worn at least in part in the ear canal of a user and a faceplate (12) at the outer end of the shell or within a cavity of the shell having an outer opening, wherein the faceplate is provided with adapter means (22) for acoustically connecting, in a detachable manner, a measuring hole (14) extending into the interior of the shell with an external measuring tube (26). The adapter means (22) are adapted to detachably connect to a removable multi-function plug (28, 40) comprising means (30) for closing the measurement hole (14). The invention also relates to a use of such an earplug, a method for manufacturing such an earplug and to a multi-function plug to be used with such an earplug.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2004Date of Patent: March 6, 2007Assignee: Phonak AGInventors: Christoph Widmer, Christian Berg